Curriculum

Curriculum

Prof. Roberto Romeo  was born in 1970. He received the degree in Chemistry (110/110 cum laude) in 1993 from the University of Messina (Italy).  Awarded  a biennal fellowship, from 1993 to 1995, he joined the group of  Prof. B. Giese at Institut fur Organische Chemie der Universitat, Basel, and, then,  the research group of Prof. P. Renaud, Institute de Chimie Organique, Université de Fribourg, working on radical reactions and stereochemical control.
In 1995, he obtained a three-year governmentally funded Ph.D. fellowship, after which he got a Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry (1997) at the Università della Calabria, discussing ”Radical processes via organoboranes and peryciclic reactions for the synthesis of carbo- and heterocyclic rings”. In January 1998, he became a Researcher in the field of organic chemistry at the University of  Messina, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004. Finally, in 2018 he obtained the Full Professor of Organic Chemistry qualification.
Member of the “Interuniversity Research Center  about Pericyclic Reaction and Synthesis of Hetero- and Carbocyclic Systems” and of the “National University Consortium for Innovative Methodologies and Synthetic Processes”.
Scientific advisor of  Fort Dodge Animal Health (Wyeth Lederle S.p.A Division) for “Studi innovativi di sintesi e di delivery systems di nuove molecole ad interesse farmaceutico per la salute degli animali”.
Prof. Roberto Romeo enjoys a number of national and international scientific collaborations. He has been the Scientific Director of International and National Research Projects. He has been an invited speaker  in Ph.D. Schools and in many National and International Conferences. He has coauthored over 100 publications, presented over 50 lectures, and supervised many students, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting scholars with research interests in developing stereoselective methods and applications in natural product syntheses.
His main research activity deals with the organic synthesis methodologies, addressed to the design and development of new synthetic processes for the formation of new carbon carbon bonds and hetero- and carbocyclic systems, based on radical and peryciclic processes. Recently, particular attention was devoted towards the design, the synthesis and the vehiculation of modified nucleosides with potential antiviral and/or antitumoral activity. He is also carrying out research on the isolation from plant sources and characterization of natural compounds with bioactive potential.
Prof. Romeo serves as an international referee in the field of organic chemistry for many organic chemistry international journals (European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Tetrahedron Letters, Tetrahedron, Heterocycles, Current Organic Chemistry, Mini Reviews in Organic Chemistry, Current Medicinal Chemistry, Molecules, International Journal of Molecular Science, Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, Food Chemistry, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Journal of Organic Chemistry, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry).